I have also been playing with your idea CDG1941 that we as a community from NobleCoin should be able to do more.
My first idea was that we create a set of Best Practices (small guide) that you as a "consumer" can use to quickly check if a coin is trustworthy or not. This is for new comers to the crypto world or people going to invest who do not have so much experience. We could write about things as;
- where to buy coins;
- how to trade;
- how to easily spot scam coins;
I thought this was a better approach, as we do not instruct dev's / coinowners but we inform investors / newcomers. Guess this will give us less criticism and we can always enrich it with time.
Besides this I really do think that Rofo should be marketing his PDF/idea's more. For example he could release a part of his PDF that will trigger a discussion and do that every week.... Maybe we are doing this on a small scale (but not with really important / sensitive subjects) and we should be posting it on Reddit, Facebook, Twitter, here etc!
The mean idea is to trigger / irritate people so they respond, you won't be pointing/blaming certain coins but simply giving your vision about certain "algo's / mining / etc" and we could ask for a reaction...
as far as the "trusted" coins concept goes... in theory that can be worked our fairly easily... open and honest dev teams come out and do what Rofo did and make it public, these 'coins' are then added to a public portfolio which the consumer can then reference. perhaps we can call it "The List of Honor"
I'm not sure that the Noble coin community alone can or should try to enforce our own sense of morality onto others, that being said, i'm sure we all ( the crypto community at large) are tired of these scams, and scam coins. not to mention scam exchanges. an issue that i have personally run into is that merchants don't want to take the chance of having their money going to a crypto exchange ( which they need to in order to exchange it for fiat, so that they can pay their suppliers and their employees along with all the other expenses that a retail business incurs) if there is a chance that the person/people running the exchange are shaving off the top ( cryptsy) not to mention if they just take off and take the money ( coinex ? ). that produces a HUGE amount of risk on behalf of the merchant.
that is kinda where my comments ( mainly out of frustration) stem from.
by just promoting an idea or a specific algo ( not sure if that is a good idea either, since progress is derived from competition) although may help to bring people in, there is a critical mass that each crypto currency needs to reach ( number of users) in order to begin to gain wider acceptance. however we ( as the GLOBAL crypto currency community) must find a way to become self regulating, otherwise some paper pushing bureaucrat will decide to do it not only for us, but to us.
keep in mind that any ideas that we come up with, WILL be presented to other threads in order to disseminate the concept, because we NEED to be able to set "standards of conduct".
as far as making postings to purposefully piss someone off, you mean trolling, personally i think that that may be counter productive. i agree that many conversations need to take place across the entire spectrum of the crypto economy. i have tried and have had most of my comments removed ( yeah trolling to promote only gets you deleted).
i love it!!!
come to think of it.... what about a youtube blitz? i know that people will still need to link to it, but a multi pronged you tube blitz with diffrent segments of Rofos' PDF spread all over youtube and vemo. all linking to the full document. that way we are not trolling other threads and pissing people off ( although we will still be pissing of a number of people by taking it that public, but for other reasons). we can then promote Noblecoin, and our ideals, along with the now infamous ( in certain circles) .PDF simultaneously without appearing to try to take over or troll other threads.
edit thanks to whoever put up that buy wall at 22
